Driver’s-license-dispensing government agencies around the world are facing the same conundrum over the past decade or so—does the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (CFSM) count as a legitimate religion, and if so, does a colander constitute religious headgear?

Moscow police are clearly of the second opinion, especially when it comes to the case of Andrey Filin, a devout Pastafarian who finally won a legal battle in Russian courts to have the Church of the FSM recognized as an official religion and allow him to wear his knitted colander in his driver’s license photo. His religion, Filin argued, required he wear the colander.